LX200 14" with 52 watts dew heater
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Close up view of the 34 watts dew heater prototype
Thanks to 52 watts dew heater, no dew on the correstor plane after a night session
Tech note: 52 watts dew heater
last update: May 15th
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After understanding the basics of simple series and parallel circuit, I bought different resistors to make my first prototype.
This design was composed of 75 groups of resistors in parallel. Each group was made of 5 resistors in series.
This montage produced 34 watts. For this montage I decided to set a single dew heater with the full power of 34 watts, because I thought this power could be just enough to heat the totality of the corrector plate.
So as to run this dew heater I used a computer power supply of 4 amperes and 145 watts. After a few seconds of running the resistor then produced heating.
To validate this montage I ran it during 6 hours to be sure of the liability of each resistor and to check whether one of them had burnt. I was now ready to test the prototype in real conditions

Step by step prototype
Design test with the half of resistors
Prototype design
Temporary fixation on the OTA
Finished prototype design
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